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Zikang Deng

Marketing & UX Designer based in Toronto, Canada. Open to full-time roles.

(Experience)

01

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

Forestry Marketing — Ontario Wood

  • Campaigns, partner communications and social content for the Ontario Wood brand.

2026 — Present

02

Hypergryph

International Product Planning (Arknights TW)

  • Localised and QA'd ~120 videos and ~600 images across 10+ in-game and offline events.
  • Built the Traditional Chinese typesetting reference that became the team's QA baseline.
  • Turned community sentiment into dashboards during a high-visibility incident.

May — Aug 2025

03

Frontier Messenger

Co-founder & Operations

  • Co-founded a small studio building playable, story-driven browser games.

04

Toronto Varsity Blues

Sports Photographer

  • Covered varsity games and produced sports content for the athletics programme.

Sep 2024 — Apr 2025

05

Yostar

International Operation (Aether Gazer)

  • Published 200+ posts across Facebook, Instagram and YouTube; +6% total followers.
  • Wrote weekly sentiment and game reports combining social and in-game data.
  • Supported dozens of maintenance cycles and a creator incentive programme.

Apr — Aug 2024

06

Centre for Effective Practice

UX Research

  • UX research.

07

Mobvista (Mintegral)

Game Analyst Intern

  • Profiled 30+ mobile games and delivered 10+ competitive reports for user acquisition.
  • Deconstructed monetisation systems to guide targeting and creative direction.

2021

(Education)

01

University of Toronto

Master of Information — User Experience Design

  • Service design project: PC Express redesign with the Loblaw UX team.

(Skills)

Research

  • Surveys
  • Interviews
  • Review mining
  • Competitive analysis
  • Service mapping

Marketing

  • Campaign planning
  • Social media
  • KOL & UGC
  • Reporting
  • Localisation QA

Design

  • Wireframes
  • Visual design
  • Video editing
  • Photography

Tools

  • Figma
  • Google Analytics
  • Sensor Tower
  • Hootsuite
  • Canva
  • Premiere Pro
  • Shopify

(Languages)

  • English
  • Mandarin Chinese
  • French

(Contact)

Let's talk.

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